Moneyball helps Saracens to play hard ball with Aviva Premiership rivals

Saracens will go into their game against Harlequins tonight with a tactical
game plan influenced by Deloitte, the financial services giant.



The club pride themselves on pre-match analysis and tactical preparation that
is heavily evidence-based and they have, for four years, been employing the
services of Bill Gerrard, a professor of sports analytics who learnt at the
feet of the father of the science, Billy Beane.

To take their use of data
further, they have entered into a partnership with Deloitte this season and
they hope that, by partnering the professor and the multi-national …